Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page 90
... never was there a greater mistake . Never was a grosser wrong done the fame of a true poet . In the compass of the English language I can call to mind no poem more profoundly , more weirdly imaginative , in the best sense , than the ...
... never was there a greater mistake . Never was a grosser wrong done the fame of a true poet . In the compass of the English language I can call to mind no poem more profoundly , more weirdly imaginative , in the best sense , than the ...
Page 188
... never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy And narrow my bed ; For man never slept In a different bed- And , to sleep , you must slumber In just such a bed . My tantalized spirit Here blandly reposes , Forgetting , or never ...
... never Be foolishly said That my room it is gloomy And narrow my bed ; For man never slept In a different bed- And , to sleep , you must slumber In just such a bed . My tantalized spirit Here blandly reposes , Forgetting , or never ...
Page 204
... never by rea- son . His works , characterized at their best by the fantastic illogicality of dreams , are such as no man could contrive . " Yet contrivance was not only part of Poe's genius , it was part of his craft . Nothing could be ...
... never by rea- son . His works , characterized at their best by the fantastic illogicality of dreams , are such as no man could contrive . " Yet contrivance was not only part of Poe's genius , it was part of his craft . Nothing could be ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
The Happiest Day the Happiest Hour | 21 |
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Aaraaf accented Al Aaraaf ALESSANDRA amid anapaest angels Annabel Lee BALDAZZAR beauty bells beneath bird breath bright caesura CASTIGLIONE catalectic chamber door dactyl death dream dwell Earth Edgar Allan Poe effect equality eternal eyes fair fancy feel feet flowers foot Frances Sargent Osgood Greek happy hast hath heart Heaven hexameter hope hour iambus idea Israfel JACINTA lake LALAGE Ligeia light lines lone long syllable maiden melancholy melody moon never Nevermore night o'er odors passion pleasure Poe's Poems of Edgar poet poetical poetry POLITIAN Prosodies Raven rhyme rhythm Sarah Elmira Royster scansion shadow short syllables skies sleep smile soul sound speak spirit spondee stanza star strange sweet Tamerlane tears thee thine things thou art thought thro throne tion tone trochaic trochee true truth Ulalume verse versification voice wild wind wing word young